[Tip] Add “Remove Suggestion” Option to Address bar in Google Chrome

When you type some text in address bar (also known as omnibox) in Google Chrome web browser, it automatically shows some suggestions taken from your web browser history, search engine and currently opened tabs. The suggestions are shown so that the user can select desired URL or web page easily and quickly.

But sometimes you may want to remove a particular suggestion displayed by Chrome browser. In such situation, Chrome doesn’t provide any way to delete the suggestion from the drop-down list. Experienced and advanced users use a workaround or keyboard shortcut to remove suggestions from address bar. Use arrow keys to select the desired suggestion and then press SHIFT+Delete keys together and the suggested entry will be immediately removed. Now that removed suggestion will no longer appear in address bar suggestions list.

Newer versions of Google Chrome browser come with a built-in preference/flag to add a new “Remove Suggestion” option in address bar. If you don’t like a suggestion and want to delete it, just right-click on the suggested entry and select “Remove suggestion” option from the context menu. Chrome will ask for the confirmation, click on “Remove” button to remove the suggestion.

Following screenshot shows the new “Remove suggestion” option showing in context menu of address bar in Chrome:

At the moment this functionality is hidden or disabled by default. Interested users need to manually activate and enable remove suggestion feature in Chrome browser.

We told you about this feature in UPDATE 113 in our exclusive Chrome Canary Updates topic when this feature was under development and testing.

If you also want to enable and try remove suggestion feature in Google Chrome web browser, following steps will help you:

1. Open Google Chrome web browser and type chrome://flags/ in addressbar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.

2. Now type transparency in the “Search flags” box.

It’ll directly go to following option:

3. To enable the feature, select Enabled from the drop-down box.

4. Google Chrome will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Google Chrome.

That’s it. You have successfully activated and enabled remove suggestion feature in Google Chrome.

Now type something in address bar and right-click on a suggestion and you’ll get “Remove suggestion” option in context menu.

PS: If you want to disable the feature in future, select “Disabled” option from the drop-down box and restart the browser.